Highlight Stack Items on Hover

Here’s a great tip that creates a nice hover effect when your mouse goes over an application (or folder) within a Leopard stack. Why this isn’t enabled by default in Leopard is beyond me, because it makes navigating within stacks a whole lot easier. Don’t miss out, here’s how to activate it:

Launch the Terminal and type the following command:defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes

then, you’ll have to restart the Dock by issuing the following command:killall Dock

This started working on it’s own, but then stopped with 10.6.1. I used your solution, but it didn’t work. At further glance, I noticed that the word “hilite” was spelled as “hilte”. I edited the plist file to spell the word as “hilite” and it worked right away.

wn, but then stopped with 10.6.1. I used your solution, but it didn’t work. At further glance, I noticed that the word “hilite” was spelled as “hilte”. I edited the plist file to spell the word as “hilite” and it worked right away.